The IDF promoted its top lawyer, Sharon Afek, to the rank of major general, making him the first openly gay officer to achieve that rank in the IDF, and emphasizing the importance of his role in the army, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Afek, the IDF’s military advocate general...

Legislation that passed the Irish Senate, known also as Seanad Éireann, which would criminalize commercial dealings with Israeli businesses in the West Bank would constitute “unprecedented state-sanctioned discrimination,” according to a legal expert, The Jewish Chronicle reported Thursday. Brooke Goldstein, the executive director of the Lawfare Project, which fights discrimination around...

An Argentine judge investigating the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires has requested that Russia extradite Ali Akbar Velayati, a close adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Wednesday. Velayati, who is in Russia this week to build support for the...

On his way out, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has betrayed yet again the trust of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian dual citizen currently lingering in an Iranian jail on what can only be described as trumped-up charges. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who worked for the Thomson-Reuters Foundation, was detained in April 2016 at...

Determined to continue its race to the moon despite the expiration of the $20 million Google Lunar XPRIZE competition last March, Israel’s nonprofit SpaceIL announced plans to launch its unmanned module on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida in mid-December. If the module reaches the moon...

The IDF announced that it had transferred hundreds of aid packages collected by Israeli residents of the Golan Heights to Syrian refugees who have been forced from their homes in southern Syria in recent weeks, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. In recent weeks, hundreds of aid packages were donated by...

Iran has been seeking to escalate tensions along Israel’s southern border with Gaza, with the goal of “deterring” Israel from taking decisive action either in its north or south, an expert on Lebanon argued in an essay published Monday in Tablet. Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense...

An Israeli Patriot missile intercepted a drone, which had penetrated 10 kilometers (6 miles) into Israeli airspace, over the Sea of Galilee on Wednesday, The Times of Israel reported. The launching of the Patriot activated sirens in the southern Golan Heights and northern Jordan Valley regions. The Patriot missile, however, intercepted the drone and...

German prosecutors have charged an Iranian diplomat with activity as a foreign agent and conspiracy to commit murder, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. Prosecutors said their investigation would not hinder Belgium’s extradition request for the suspect. Federal prosecutors announced that Vienna-based diplomat Assadollah Assadi is suspected of contracting a...

The United States and Israel have established a center for energy cooperation to develop innovative technologies that tackle issues such as energy, cybersecurity and using water for energy production, among others. The center, titled the U.S.-Israel Center of Excellence in Energy, Engineering and Water Technology, is launching with $16 million...